Help ID characters

[Lerebours, Jose]

JP suggested:

> | >SCO UNIX based ...
> | >
> | >Trying to use import ascii to read and process EDI file. Client
> | >sent me file which has
> | >
> | >a) when I cat file <85> between data blocks
> | >b) when I vi file \20 between data blocks
> | >
> | >I've tried using \20 as field and record delimiter
> | >but it wont take.
> | >
> | >
> | >What do you think I should use?
> | 
> | The "cat" comment above makes no sense, but the vi does, 
> and based on that, 
> | octal 20 = decimal 16, thus:
> | 
> | chr("16")
> 
> Chr("16") is Control-P, and in vi, it looks like ^P, not like \20.
> 
> So I, for one, still don't know what Jose is looking at.
> 
> Jose, run the file through less.  What then?
> 

This is what I see

626*0*P*:<85>GS*FA*001495472*3055940038*20041207*1147*626*X*004030<85>ST*997*62

         ^^^^                                                     ^^^^^

when I use both more and less.  The <85> shows in reverse video.  

I need to correct my original post, when I cat the file, I see a letter a with
a left leading tilde

6260001àAK1*RC*2415àAK9*A*1*1*1àSE*000004
      ^^^                     ^^^

Regards;


Jose Lereborus